One of the occasional commenters here, and a kindly man from across the pond, Russ, wrote this which I thought would…
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It’s a voting bloc as big as Hispanics, 18- to 24-year-olds and the staunchest pro-lifers, and it broke for the Democratic presidential nominee by a margin of 44 points.
Here is an excellent set of analysis of the demographics of the voters in the US Presidential Election 2012 from the BBC. What I found fascinating is the religious vote not being quite what I expected, though I would like to see results for evangelicals and fundamentalists.
A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.
Only Pakistan’s respondents said they would prefer to see Mr Romney win November’s election.
Time for some light relief. And relief it is. It is, in fact, one of the funniest things i have seen in recent times. So Obama and Romney debated again recently. Thankfully, Obama did himself more justice. But the best thing to come out of this debate is below, by the genius who does bad lip-reading.
So the election in the US looms. And voter apathy is a dangerous thing when the consequences are so high. What to do about it? Well obviously get Samuel L. Jackson to poetical swear at members of an apathetic family! It works. Hell, I’m voting Obama and I don’t even live there or have the right! Well, it may have to be in the poll booth in my head, but it all helps…
This really is a very cool video.